The Cosmic Diary, has a new participant: Great Britain's Astronomer Royal from the year 1894, William Henry Mahony Christie. He will be joined by his two assistants, Herbert Hall Turner and Frank Watson Dyson, as they each blog in text and images about their lives and work at the Greenwich Observatory via the official website: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/151/

*IYA2009 News Round-up: *http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/152/

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